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Trivias about the Dr. Jose P. Rizal's roots in Fujian, China

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On January 23, 2003, a Philippine delegation led by Philippine Congress Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. and Congressman Roque Ablan, Jr. descendants of the Rizal clan, officials of the Knights of Rizal and members of the Filipino & Chinese business community held the wreath-laying ceremony before the Rizal Monument in the Rizal Park in Siongque Village (called "Zhang-Guo" in Mandarin Chinese), Jinjiang City, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Siongque is the ancestral village of Philippine national hero Dr.